Vehicle-wheel.



A. W. LIVINGSTON.

. VEHICLE WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25, 1911.

. 1,065,537, Patented June 24, 1913.

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APPLICATION FILED'SEPT. 25, 1911.

1,065,537; Patented June 24,1913.

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1 a a A 1 WL 5 fj 6 RF wme TON- STAES PNT ANDREW W. LIVINGSTON, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR T0 STANDARD STEEL WHEEL AND TIRE ABMOR COMPANY, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW W. LIVING- s'roN, a citizen of the United States, residing at, Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle- Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in vehicle wheels and has for its object the production of a device which is formed from a single piece of material which is so formed as to possess great strength and resistance against the dishing of a wheel that is to say the buckling thereof.

Another object of this invention is the produrtion of a vehicle wheel which is pro vided with a body portion formed from a single 'piece of material, and bent so as to reinforce the same, and also to form eflicient rim engaging means.

"Vith ,these and other objects in view this invention consists of certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of tion of the wheel showing how the rim engaging portions are bent. thereon. Fig. (3 is a sectlon taken on line B-B of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings by numerals 1 designates the hub which is provided intcr mediate its ends with a tlangc having projecting laterally therefrom a plurality of fingers The huh I is provided near one end with a shoulder 4 against which tits :1 hub-plate 5, which hub-plate like the tlange 2 is provided with a plurality of fingers (3. A spacing collar 7 is positioned between the flange 2 and the plate 5, and said flange and plate are firmly held in a set position through the medium of the clamping bolts 8. The body portion of the wheel is formed from a blank sheet which is corrugated VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Application fi1edSeptember25, 1911.

Patented June 24, 1913.

Serial No. 651,200.

thereby constituting ribs 9. The fingers 3 and 0 fit in the dished portions of the corrugations thereby greatly strengthening the same at the junction of the body with the: hub. In this way the body portion of the wheel will also be firmly locked in engagementwith the hub.

The body portion is first formed from a blank sheet as illustrated in Fig. 4 having the edge thereof cut to form feet 10 which are scalloped on their ends as at 11 so as to conform to the shape of the corrugations when bent as illustrated in Fig. 3. A lip 12 is cut from the center of each foot 10, and is benton the line 13, in an opposite direction to the foot 10. It will be obvious that as the corrugations fit snugly against the sides 11 of the feet 10, these corrugations will be greatly reinforced at their outer end thereby constituting a substantially rigid frame or body portion formed "from a' cheap and easily manufactured blank. It will, of course, be obvious that thesefeet 10 are alternately bent in opposite directions so as RHSSIUE be stamped from sheet metal owing to the I periphery of the spolcc structure.

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